Musical Monday with Leo Moracchioli

The Shades of Gray Dancers are setting the mood for today's cover song by Leo Moracchioli--by being dust in the wind.

 
 
 

A Picture Perfect Promo

Today, we offer some pictures of the lovely and talented Jean Seberg (1938-1979).

Why? No reason other than we want to call attention to the fact that a Friend of Shades of Gray is going to be screening "The Mouse That Roared" (1955) on his YouTube Channel. The photos below are mostly publicity stills for the film where she plays Helen, the daughter of a scientist who claims to have invented the most powerful bomb ever created.

Whether you can make the live YouTube broadcast and chat with fellow movie fans, or you watch "The Mouse That Roared" later, we're sure you'll enjoy Peter Sellars, William Hartnell, Jean Seberg, and the rest of the great cast in this classic comedy!

It's National Ice Cream Day!

 Join us (and Yvonne Craig) by having tasty, cold treats on this very fine National Ice Cream Day!

Fanny on International Nude Day!

 

It's International Nude Day!

We're celebrating International Nude Day for the fourth year in a row with pictures! You should also celebrate in whatever way won't get you in trouble!

The Milla Jovovich Quarterly

In this edition of Milla Jovovich Quarterly, we bring you a change of pace from recent and upcoming Picture Perfect Specials and Picture Perfect Wednesdays: We have a gallery of photos spanning Milla's near four decades in front of cameras.. and she is fully clothed in every picture!

 
 

Violins and Violence

 
Here's another neat student film that has been recovered from the distant, abandoned corners of YouTube! Made by Indonesian college students, but with English dialog. It has a 1970s slasher or proto-slasher film, and I might have given it an Eight-star rating if there'd been some well-executed gore or stabbings instead of a symbolic graphic. Still, the general atmosphere of the film--powered by great lighting and camera work, and the chilling, detached demeanor of the lead actress--coupled with the story twists make this a fine way to spend a few minutes if you like horror flicks. (The color tints also add to the mood and mystery of the picture.)

The Violin Player (aka "The Violent Player") (2006)
Starring: Silena Cheung, Andra Fembriarto, Maggie Leung, and Tim Powers
Director: Andra Fembriarto

Rating: Seven of Ten Stars

It's a Mohammed Monday!

 

THIS WEEK WITH JESUS & MO

  

Musical Monday with the Yorkshire Kitchen Recordings

 Puppets. Shaggy puppets. Singing puppets. It's a something quirky to get the final work-week of June 2023 off to a great start! (It's actually a great cover of Tom Wait's "How's It Gonna End"... you might even find yourself thinking it's better than the original!)

It's a Shoot-'Em Sunday!

Here are some girls with guns... and not much else!